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round the bend

ADJECTIVE
crazy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
insane kooky mad nuts nutty silly wacky
STRONG
ape berserk cuckoo lunatic potty psycho screwball
WEAK
barmy bats in the belfry batty bonkers cracked crazed daft delirious demented deranged dingy dippy erratic flaky flipped flipped-out freaked-out fruity idiotic mad as a March hare mad as a hatter maniacal mental moonstruck nutty as fruitcake of unsound mind out of one's mind out of one's tree out to lunch screw loose screwy touched unbalanced unglued unhinged unzipped
Antonyms
STRONGEST
balanced calm collected rational reasonable sane sound
WEAK
realistic responsible sensible

Example Sentences

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"It just drives me round the bend" when people blast out videos, music and films on public transport, the 73-year-old says.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

When it reaches the right side of the track, you see it round the bend and then start moving right to left.

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2023

The women who went back to their partners drove some of the staff round the bend.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

That EP, called just 7 for the number of its tracks, came galloping round the bend last night.

From Slate • Jun. 21, 2019

At the same time Boromir and Aragorn reappeared round the bend far behind him and came labouring up the slope.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien